Resistance to Double Marginalization of Females in Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck

Abstract

Adichie‟s The Thing Around Your Neck, a collection of the stories from Nigeria, is replete with the postcolonial feminist voice. The writer presents the pains and pathos along with the resistance of the females in the country and aboard. The colonial rule of the Westerners has badly exploited the land, the people, of which the females have been the main victims. Similarly, the existing patriarchy in the country has added a fuel in their pains and sufferings. They are constantly victimized, dehumanized, and humiliated through different social institutions and even the close relatives whose mindset has been badly shaped by the patriarchal moors. The young writer casts a spotlight on the backward society so as to remove the discriminating social norms and the unfair practices by foregrounding them in front of the readers. The awareness among the people and especially on the women themselves has made the situation better. The females themselves are able to resist any kind of inhuman treatment and severe tortures given by patriarchy and colonialism. The sort of double marginalization of the females should be avoided for the balanced kind of development mainly in the „third world‟ countries like Nigeria.